Trope Talk: Personifying Death
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Published 2023-10-20
MUSIC: "Passing Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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All Comments (21)
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“We don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time we remember that it’s turning” is such a raw line.
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“Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.” My favourite interpretation.
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My favorite personification of death comes from an SCP writer. Namely SCP 4999. He doesn’t talk, he just appears to anyone who is dying and alone, offers them a cigarette, places a hand on them or holds theirs, and waits with them. Nothing super existential just a quiet promise that nobody dies alone. I think it’s kind of beautiful.
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Don't challenge Death to a pillow fight Unless you're prepared for Reaper cushions.
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Death having a “near-protagonist experience” is such an underrated joke
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“And if you disagree, that’s cool; pistols at dawn and I won’t need any backup” Just the nonchalant way Red threw this line in there cracked me up
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My grandmother read Pratchett very late in her life, and rather by accident because I had left one of the books laying around. She instantly took to it and then proceeded to read as many of them as she could. What I remember mostly is that one day she said "They have taken me a lot of fear of my death, because if death is even remotely like the one depicted in the books, there is nothing to be afraid of". And honestly for that I'll always be thankful.
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Sad to see that "The Loving Reaper" by Jenny Jinya wasn't mentioned. It's one of my favorites. "They will be terribly missed." "Yes, but being missed so deeply is the price of being loved so much."
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The story about Terry Pratchett getting letters from terminally ill patients had me crying at work, I can only imagine what he felt.
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Sir Terry's Death announcement on twitter gets me every time I read them. Three tweets: "AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER." "Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night." "The End."
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The reason it's hard to fight with scythes is because scythes are not made for fighting. They're made for taking fully grown produce from the earth that nurtured them, as they are now complete.
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My favourite line from Reaper man is when Death says "I NEVER WORE A CROWN." I think it put such a tidy, perfect bow on who Discworld's Death *is*. Impartial. Just a guy doing his job. Doing it with all the compassion he can.
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The Wolf from "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" is a good compromise between a Villain and a Force of Nature. In theory he is just doing his job, but he is purposely going after Puss in Boots even though he still has one life left for purely personal reasons, in this case the anger he feels at him not taking his lives seriously and the how ridiculous in general the idea of 9 lives is.
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"and if you disagree that's cool, pistols at dawn and I won't need any backup" that just became my favorite quote in everything.
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“So let’s spend the rest of the video talking about Death from the Discworld series” - and everyone liked that ❤
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13:26 'By the end of the story Susan and Death have successfully saved the day by blackmailing the indomitable spirit of Rock and Roll...' Me: What '...it makes sense in context' Me: oh, okay
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Reaper Man goes so unbelievably hard. “No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.” Big recommend for discworld to anyone, thank you Red for promoting it.
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"To be where the falling angel meets the rising ape" never fails to uplift me and touch me, but "what can the harvest hope for, but the care of the Reaper Man?" has me crying on my lunch break
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“Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it. Death is the destination.” Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.
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”if their only goal in life is to not die, they’re just meeting the bare minimum definition of being alive, and they’re missing their chance to use their life for anything more interesting” such a good quote
